New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-01-06
ALL THE FAMILY POISONED.
MYSTERIOUS OCCURRENCE IN BROOKLYN.


THREE CHILDREN DEAD AND FOUR OTHERS AND
THE FATHER ILL-PHYsICIANS PUZZLED.
The mysterious deaths Of three children and the severe
illness Of the four other children In the family
Of Joseph Mauri Ill Butlcrst Brooklyn. CAUSED
stir In that neighporhood yesterday suspicpns that
they proper food and OF Wholesale poisoning
we're entertained, but satisfactory solution OF tue
matter was arrived At The family consists OF che
father mother and chlaren-Louls age fourteen
Joseph twelve Martha ten. Carrie eight John six. Alice
four. aud Eugene twenty mouths The father drug
gist at No. 447 Hicks aud the eldest boy works In
candy store On New Years Day all were In good health
and home Joseph, who was visiting an aunt
Mrs West at No. 6sS Monroe-st, to whose house he
went on Thursday. He also we'll On Sunday
morning no taken III there with pain 10 the stomach
reschlng and discharge Of blood from the nostr, He
rapidly grsw worse with symptoms Of Inflammation oil
tho bowels, until Tuesday afternoon. when he died.
Early Sunday morning tho father ali other
children Frustrated with similar symptoms mt their
homs
DR.. j. NJ Raub was called and found the cases ex-
tremely puzzling. The patients showed symptoms OF
poisoning but there nothing about the food they had
show that anything deeterious had been In IT,
On Saturday they had eaten rcasseed chicken and New
Years cakes. The boy Louis had taken home fifteen
pounds OF candy. which his employer had given him.
The family had OF ton poun 10 themselves ard
had given tho remainder to the other family In the
house; but nothing occurred to show that IL was
poisoned. Tho llness OF the boy who was away from
home still further complicated the matter The secon'
dairy symptoms seemed more Like smallpox thap any
thing else although that disease Is not accompanied py
the symptoms these patients had at the outoreaE
fortnight ago OF the children broke out 10 water
blisters and this alarmed the family 80 that they haa
two OF the younger children vaecnated An eruption
aupsarod upon them lending color to the smallpox
theory serera physicians OF the Health Depart ment
called In by DR.. Rsub They were unaos 10 sovo
the mystery, hut approved lis treatment They were
iucued to thnk tua tho trouble was perncioas fever
OF pestientia characteI which nad broken oot s h
aneously from bad sanitary conditions atbou9h tns
would hardly explain the illness OF the 10Y WHO was
absent IN, a., .,,..
vomiting blood and after violent convulsions. In me
afternoon the boy John died with similar symptoms
Tho physicians entirely ut sea Ia res ira 10 to rear
cause o death and withheld the death certhcate ior an
oncial Investigation by the Corouer; ,on, q,
tho aunts house gave u certificate OF dealh from IN
nsmmaon OF the bowels and tho body was taken 20 tne
father house Three little collins were carried INTO tuo
basement the bodies were placed In them
afternoon In the paror overhead ay Inc ns tour
.ick children Tho D-ishbOr- were assisting III TAX
Ing OF them The ASSISTANTS VINO
In tho disease Mrs Mauri, the only mt mber OF TUG
,,rv not pro,tr,te by illness was cor petey over
c rSy Inv V srt at the loss Of hsr children
tho same tho Of the family ana was WHO'LL
she as nut ate more OF the New-Iears cake THAN
fotoner Rooney was Informed OF the and In view
~ th nzzline features and disability OF contSion
ordered lies 10 he taken TO the hnrsue Arran
ments made for holGing.post-mortem examinations
Their, at 10 III. to-day, aud al Inquest VIII be eesuii
Dr. Peal said that the boz attended oy I'm ap
poared To nave tirn and violent ~ aGA o.
lion OF the bowels. Similar o leud collie Inc 81 mi TOMS
we're not unlike tnore caused lead pol,ohin. hralIa
INSPECTOR Moore VINO was called IN 10 aen the a,.iy
Inv br Raub said haG enirely unable to explain
tho matter TIE symptoms we're those OF acri POISON
inx smallpox. aud fever CONFINED ana only P, tn
m rtrm examination coui determine the faets ana tne
real he trouble II 1t had oecn any,nins "a te
rooI ne BOY away from home should nave Dern dlner
e"tIy affected II slow poison had been administered
TO them u dit not seem possible that al "ou'u NO
Dr. Rsnb saii he dill not think ihers was anything
criminal in the case. ahongn ne peneveu rne ori,s
were poi-pned He was unable TO ASSN ahS %
caus, for tie symptoms, but they were tLose o. so
active poison From the report, made :" aim he'i,n
Commlssoner Ott"rsou WAS Inclined 10 'n'nA ma .na
disc SO virnleni and malignant ieVrE ~" va, va
40 mat The boie. might be buried speedily AS possnn
TIE uoliee not Informed of ths mitter uhth tlo
Poiice Can,ain Lssvry but hs was onaDs 10 HAD thst
there sny'hns criminal ~ inc Gaze So. ,. o,r,rer
vrre reporte 10 a critical condition ana Dr huo
feared that fatal results would cnSuo ne -u nc l' .o
n,lscd when he learned that he was sinking
ami was about die. Tho doctor thousht Ihat VIZ
reach no conclusion in regard TO the canse OF the
Illness. II II hal not been for the death OF ine p VIA
would explain all the crcumstan'e IS; Dut WA. one 1aes
knocked in the head The family on saturday n Se o.
.anerkraut but there was nothing IN hs 70 GsSe o ns
shadow ~ suspicion upon Mrs. Raub , a,
physiran who carefully considered the matter SAID
La, vrir tbaf the health authorities were guilty NJ
criminal carelcSsne-s in not quarantnlng the house
made known n IL proved 10 he CON
taors the responsibility for its spread would rest upon
th Health Department. for they had been III charge OF
tho case for two days and allowed tho neighors "a enter
The mouse freely he suggested that IL might he mang-
nant type Of smallpox AMI that the usuai ,hn 10
,nus OF that not manifest hecase me VIC
,ims had taken cold In the weather me disease
heinz d ven Inward and thus proving shdiculy atal
recalls Of the other mysterious poisoning
- In recent wears brooklyn. several OF which nave
49, boan sovcd one of the remarkable of these
Us mar ~ Ees-ie Thayer school girl in whose stomach
.nou IN arsenic kir bali dozen people WAS louhd
how II got there never explained